Giuseppe Garibaldi: “Few, but splendid with the crown of valor, the Hungarians, French and English, who attended the southern army, worthily…”

Who, indeed, had then ever said, on those shores, to those young men, that there was such a thing as Italy, or that they had a country to be ameliorated and redeemed?

Although certainly not superstitious, often, amidst the most arduous scenes of my tumultuous life, when I have passed unharmed through the breakers of the ocean, or the hail-storms of battle, she has seemed present with me.

When I recur to the principles which were inculcated at school, and the motives used to encourage us to study, I am now able to understand their unsoundness and their evil tendency.

The sufferings which I endured after being unbound were indescribable: yet I did not complain.